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But it did eventually lead to the break up of the USSR - without WW3 - rather than the Soviets taking over the world.

• XorNot 6y ago
  The Soviets were never in a position to overtake the world, and the idea that they were was a US misreading of the spread of communism and the influence of Soviet agitators - who showed up everywhere - as though they weren't doing exactly the same things the CIA were. The Vietnam war, for instance, was prosecuted entirely on the faulty assumption that a communist Vietnam was just going to become a subsumed extension of the Chinese government, rather then what actually happened, which was it became communist Vietnam and continued to vigorously oppose Chinese influence, as well as ultimately becoming fairly integral to the eventual downfall of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia after the war. The "domino effect" was American institutional panic that was encouraged because it led to policy decisions with favorable, easy domestic political consequences and huge handouts to business interests.
  • DSingularity 6y ago
    Just an innocent “misreading”?
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